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  • Awake in the Dark

    The Best of Roger Ebert

    by Roger Ebert ...
    A collection of greatest film reviews from a critic who “understands how to pop the hood of a movie and tell us how it runs” (Steven Spielberg).Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert wrote movie reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over forty years. His wide knowledge, keen judgment, and sharp sense of humor made him America’s most celebrated film critic—the only one to have a star ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline

    Become a master of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast, incredibly varied, and richly complex. Different worlds, different timelines, countless characters. This is the guide to that universe. Created in close collaboration with Marvel Studios, it will answer the biggest questions: what happened, when, and where.Follow the entire story of the MCU from before ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself

    An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary films and the secrets of film reviewing. From Hitchcock and Tarantino to Spielberg and Bigelow, you will gain a critical understanding of legendary directors and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • West Side Story

    The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961).A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal-a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory came at a price. In this engrossing volume, film historian Richard Barrios recounts how the drama and rivalries seen onscreen played ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Double Indemnity

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    A new kind of film emerged from Hollywood in the early 1940s, thrillers that derived their plots from the hard-boiled school of crime fiction but with a style all their own. Appearing in 1944, 'Double Indemnity 'was a key film in the definition of the genre that came to be known as film noir. Its script creates two unforgettable criminal characters: the cynically manipulative Phyllis Dietrichson ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

    Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • WOODY ALLEN: REEL TO REAL

    Alex Sheremet presents one of the most thorough and considered critiques on Woody Allen’s complete body of cinema work as well as the critical debates that surround it … but his text is only part of the full story.

    by Alex Sheremet ...
    Series series Digidialogue
    Woody Allen: Reel to Real is the first DigiDialogue from Take2Publishing … a product and a process where the author inspires a discourse between and amongst himself and his audience …Everyone has an opinion of Woody Allen, whether those opinions come from a learned perspective, or from the tabloids … and Sheremet's excitingly exhaustive analysis is the perfect fodder to generate and further this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn

    TV and Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre

    Series series Pop!
    Three great love stories that started it allJane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights are three of the greatest novels in English literature. Now joining them is Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn, a decidedly different take on these classics. You will laugh with delight as you learn:- The importance of thoroughly investigating your employers before accepting a job at their isolated, creepy ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Studio Ghibli

    The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

    \*\* New edition of this popular guide, updated and expanded to include Studio Ghibli's latest box office smash, The Boy and the Heron \*\* The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TCM Underground

    50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema

    Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films—primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s—with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Thing

    by Anne Billson ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    An extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which of them is still human, and which a perfect alien facsimile? John Carpenter's The Thing, the second adaptation of John W. Campbell's 1938 novella Who Goes There?, received overwhelmingly negative ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sadist Cinema

    A Serbian Film

    by Fwah Storm ...
    Series Book 1 - Sadist Cinema
    In 2010 the world was subjected to a new and brave entry into the world of foreign cinema. A film that caused panic and outrage across the globe, and has resulted in multiple bans of the film, as well as a few arrests.Since then ‘A Serbian Film’ has earned itself a cult status, and mentions of its name still enduce fear into the hearts of movie goers around the world! ‘SADIST CINEMA’ is a short ... Read more

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  • From Hollywood with Love

    The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

    by Scott Meslow ...
    An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre.No Hollywood genre has been more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • There Goes Tokyo!

    A Smashing Celebration of Kaiju Eiga

    The 1960s and 1970s, a time when a proliferation of American television programs aired the seemingly never ending treat of Kaiju Eiga (giant monster movie).  Decades before instant viewing, creature feature shows regularly unleashed an array of towering city-stomping terrors with names like Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Kong, Ghidorah, and Them!  Skyscrapers were toppled!  Panic filled the streets!  ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Things to Come

    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The release of 'Things to Come' in 1936 was one of the key moments in the history of science fiction in the cinema. The film was the brainchild of H. G. Wells, whose worldwide reputation as a thinker had persuaded its producer, Alexander Korda, to offer him a contract giving him virtually total control over the project. Korda drafted a dazzling array of talents to render into pictures Wells's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Masters of Terror All-Star Filmographies (2021)

    Masters of Terror

    Series series Masters of Terror
    This book contains the gamified synopses and ratings of hundreds of dark films written, directed, and inspired by some of the greatest horror authors, screenwriters, and directors, including franchise installments based on their work. The films are ranked.In this edition, Steve Hutchison covers the filmographies of Adam Green, Bram Stoker, Brian Yuzna, Charles Band, Clive Barker, Dario Argento, ... Read more

    $6.60 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chronology on Elm Street

    by Mr. Satanism ...
    Do the Nightmare on Elm Street movies really occur in the order that they were released? And how does Freddy Krueger's TV show fit in? Or Wes Craven's New Nightmare? What about the music videos? Well fear not, because, like Clarissa, Mr. Satanism is here to explain it all, in his first-ever film guide dedicated exclusively to a single franchise: A Chronology on Elm Street. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killer B's: Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror

    by D. Scott Apel ...
    113 great imaginative movies on demand you've probably never seen! The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the 113 best unknown and most imaginative science fiction, fantasy and horror movies available on demand and on DVD, excerpted from KILLER B’s Volumes 1 & 2. We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Agnès Varda

    Resistance and Eclecticism

    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 80 All-Japanese Horror Movies

    World of Terror

    Series series World of Terror
    This book contains 80 descriptions of horror films reviewed and ranked by critic Steve Hutchison. Each description includes five ratings (stars, story, creativity, acting, quality), a synopsis and a review. All movies were produced exclusively by Japan. How many have you seen? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transgender Cinema

    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleTransgender Cinema gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with a history of trans tropes in classic Hollywood cinema, from comic drag scenes in Chaplin’s The Masquerader to Garbo’s androgynous Queen Christina, and from psycho killer queers to The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s outrageous queen, it examines a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Writings from The New Yorker

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Anthony Lane on Con Air—“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.”Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County—“I got my copy at the airport, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • TLA Film, Video, and DVD Guide 2002-2003

    The Discerning Film Lover's Guide

    Edited by David Bleiler ...
    The TLA Film, Video & DVD Guide 2002-2003 is the absolutely indispensible guide for the true lover of cinema. By focusing on independent and international films, and avoiding much of the made-for-TV/made-for-cable/made-for-video dreck, this guide offers more comprehensive coverage of the films the reader may actually want to rent and see. The guide includes:* Reviews of more than 10,000 films* ... Read more

    $11.99 USD